Sister Parish's Design Philosophy: The Apple Tree Doctrine

''As a child, I discovered the happy feelings that familiar things can bring -- an old apple tree, a favorite garden, the smell of a fresh-clipped hedge, simply knowing that when you round the corner, nothing will be changed, nothing will be gone. I try to instill that lucky part of my life in each house that I do. Some think a decorator should change a house. I try to give permanence to a house, to bring out the experiences, the memories, the feelings that make it a home.''
 
--Sister Parish, Sister, The Life of the Legendary American Interior Decorator Mrs. Henry Parish II

Sister Parish, Photograph by Lord Snowdon

Image Credit: Public Appearances, 1987-1991